November 2013

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David Bowie "Love Is Lost" (Barnaby Roper, dir.)

An intro of applause becomes rhythmic before becoming rasterized, which is when this masterpiece starts to take shape. Polygons and other digital detritus start to skitter and take shape, eventually hitting a climax and creating something of pure beauty. But technology is never satisfied with perfection, so we march past the human and back into the modern haze.

Content note: The video has nudity. It's been labeled NSFW elsewhere on the web, but that phrase is so associated with shit merely meant to titillate or shock that I don't think it has any business being used to describe this work of art. Also, why are you watching videos at work and worrying about boobs? Don't you have faxes to send? 

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Portugal. The Man "Modern Jesus" (Elliott Sellers, dir.)

Director Elliott Sellers delivers a nicely shot and constructed performance video for "Modern Jesus" — which perhaps works as a nice match to the previous video for the song directed by AG Rojas, which was highly conceptural (and amazing). The setting instanly signifies Church, but there's also something about the video/song which brings to mind "Wonderwall" (maybe it's the glasses?) who were bigger than The Beatles and in turn bigger than Jesus. (I kid, of course) 

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Steve Perry and "Oh Sherrie" and the Park Plaza Hotel

I was watching director Robby Starbuck's new Akon "So Blue" video and my first thought upon seeing the Park Plaza Hotel Los Angeles location was, "Oh, shit," or rather, "Oh, Sherrie."

Yes, that famed staircase and gate were enshrined forever in Journey singer Steve Perry's solo debut, "Oh, Sherrie."

And, in a ludicrous factoid: The girl in that video is also named Sherrie — Sherrie Swafford — and was Perry's girlfriend at the time. Alas, she never became Sherrie Perry.

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Akon "So Blue" (Robby Starbuck, dir.)

Robby Starbuck direct's the first single from AKON's highly anticipated album 'Stadium' due out within the year on Universal Records. "So Blue" is the resurgance of Akon's well documented status as a bonafide hitmaker. Tommy "Tiny" Lister & Rose Rollins star in the video along side AKON as Starbuck weaves a story of a woman desperate to find a way out from a very dangerous man. 

By RSM . on November 14, 2013 @ 7:50am PST

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